Happy New Year! As is tradition, the start of a year calls for reflection on the past and for plans on what to do in the upcoming cycle around the sun. I'm really quite happy with what I have achieved in 2023 and am looking forward to the projects in 2024!
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| Pict 1404: Sanguinius leading the Blood Angels |
The Hobby Tally 2023
So to have a look back, this is what I set out to do at the start of the year and how I did:
- Paint and play at least the first of the two Cursed City expansions (it's only 6 miniatures: 3 giant bats, Radukar the Beast, Lady Annika and Carmilla DuSang)
- I managed to paint all of these, but decided against playing just the one expansion. Ideally I'd like to start a fresh campaign with both expansions painted.
I did, however, play one session over Halloween, which was great!
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| Pict 1405: Cursed City Villains of 2023 |
- Paint 5 Infinity miniatures and play a game with them
- In the end I painted 11 Infinity miniatures and even had a few games scheduled in, but they all did not work out in the end. I will have to be better with getting together with people to play these games!
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| Pict 1406: Haqqislam, Dahshat and Kaplans of 2023 |
- Paint 10 MESBG miniatures
- I painted 16 MESBG miniatures - not as many as in prior years, but I'm still happy with them! Again, having a game scheduled makes for great motivation to paint at least some of the miniatures you need.
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| Pict 1407: Mordor Orcs and Rohan Heroes of 2023 |
- Paint 3 more tiles of the modular gaming board as well as the rest of the Garden of Morr (that's 6 pieces of wall)
- This is probably the biggest achievement of this year! I'm super glad to have finished a 4x4 gaming board and the Garden of Morr pieces. I still have quite a few more pieces of terrain fitting in with the collection, but I can play games at home, which is amazing.
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| Pict 1408: Garden of Morr Scenery 2023 |
- Paint at least 100 miniatures in total
- 100 is always a good and round number to aim for and of course I managed to smash this goal as well with 176 miniatures painted in total!
Looking at these resolutions and my way of achieving them makes me really happy. I did not go for to many specific projects because I know, I will get distracted over the course of the year. What could have gone better is gaming – while certainly also a question of free time, I could have been more agressive in getting together with friends. But in the final days of the year I managed to get to hobby club about an hour away and get in my first Heresy game. I do hope to contiune this trend!
If you want so look back at my painting progress of previous years, here are the links to the tallies of the past: The Tally 2017, The Tally 2018, The Tally 2019, The Tally 2020, The Tally 2021, The Tally 2022
Other Big Projects of this Year
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| Pict 1409: Horus Heresy Blood Angels of 2023 |
I added quite a bit to my Blood Angels army this year: Aster Crohne, 1 Consul, 10 Mortalis Destroyers, 5 Assault Destroyers as Zephon's retinue, 1 Castra Ferrum Dreadnought, 15 Inductii Despoilers, 10 Scouts, 15 Assault Marines, 1 Rhino, 6 Seekers, 1 Avenger Strike Fighter and of course Sanguinius!
All in all 67 miniatures – quite the collection seeing it tallied up like this!
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| Pict 1410: Tyranids of 2023 |
With the new models coming for the tenth edition of 40k, I also did some work on my Tyranids. While I'm still not that enamoured with 40k, these were quite fun to get back to.
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| Pict 1411: Badab Enforcers of 2023 |
I have gotten quite a good start to a Necromunda collection without even intending to do so. I plan to use these as the bad guys in a Inquisitor game but they could also see use as a Badab War Kill Team. I should really get onto painting the Inquisitor, the retinue and some more terrain I have sloted for that project...
Hobby Plans for 2024
Which brings me nicely to the plans for the coming year. I will once again try to not be too specific and be ok with getting distracted. I also want to try and not get to swept up an the hype of new miniatures and get to the projects I already have at home. And I do want to play more games
- Paint 2 pieces of terrain each for the SciFi and the Fantasy collection
- Finish up the Cursed City collection. Thas is 10 Grave Guard, 5 Direwolves, 3 Vargheists – 18 miniatures in total, the should be doable!
- Once again paint more than 100 miniatures
- Lastly, make a concerted effort to buy less new stuff, paint the stuff I have and play with it
Respect for 2023 writing and your works!
ReplyDeleteCursed City Villains are my favorit :)
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Thank you! These modern Vampire miniatures by Games Workshop are excellent! – But I do love the older stuff as well!
DeleteThat's an impressive amount of achievement you've got there; may you exceed it in 2024!
ReplyDeleteThank you! We'll see how much I get done. But I do have to say I'm pretty happy with what I did and if I can repeat that, that'll be enough!
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